Recipe prepared and contributed by guest writer,  Debalina De

– Chicken Clear Soup

– Chicken Clear Soup

Serves: 2

Ingredients required for Chicken Clear Soup are:

1. 2 cup chicken stocks
2. spring onion finely chopped 2 table spoon.
3. boiled chicken 2 table spoon.
4. salt- to taste
5. white pepper powder- 1\4 tea spoon
6. cornflower- 1 table spoon

Method of preparation:

1. Make fresh chicken stock . Remove the chicken from the stock. Cover and keep chicken side.
2. Then add the spring onion. Add salt and white pepper powder.
3. Mix the cornflower.  Boil the soup. And stirring continuously.
4. Add ajinomoto and boil for 1 minute.

Chicken clear soup is ready to be served hot.

December 31st, 2009 | Tags: Chicken Recipe | Category: Chicken, Soups & Salads | Comments (2)

Sweet and Sour chicken is another oil free chicken recipe that I experimented.  It is an Indian customized oil free Chinese recipe. It actually turned out to be pretty good and tasty. It is very easy to cook and as there is no oil it is an extremely healthy recipe too.

– Oil free sweet and sour chicken

– Oil free sweet and sour chicken

Ingredients required:

1. Boneless chicken – 1 cup (cut in small cubes)
2. Onion – 1 medium size
3. Capsicum – 1 medium size
4. Carrot – 1 small size
5. Tomato sauce – 5 to 6 table spoon
6. Chili sauce – 1/2 tea spoon
7. Vinegar – 1/2 tea spoon
8. Salt to taste
9. Sugar – 1/2 tea spoon
10. Corn flour – 1 table spoon
11. Water – One and a half cup

Method to cook Sweet and Sour Chicken (oil free):

1. Cut the onion and capsicum in small pieces
2. Cut the carrot into circular or oval shapes if you like
3. Now marinade chicken and carrot with vinegar, tomato sauce, chili sauce, salt and sugar for 10 minutes
4. Boil water in a pan and marinade chicken. Boil in low heat for 10 minutes.
5. Add onion and capsicum and continue boiling till the chicken has softened.
6. Make a corn flour mix in water and add it to the chicken preparation
7. Mix it well
8. You may wish to add one or two table spoon of tomato sauce

This is best served with hot plain rice, fried rice or noodles.

Enjoy!

August 1st, 2009 | Tags: Chicken Recipe, Chinese Recipe | Category: Chicken, Lunch & Dinner, Oil Free Cooking | Leave a comment

– Kaju Chicken

– Kaju Chicken

Kaju chicken (cashew chicken) is a typical India dish which is best served with garam-garam Tawa roti or parantha. This chicken recipe is based primarily on kaju (cashew nuts) paste.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken leg – 6 pieces
2. Kaju (Cashew nuts) paste – 4-5 table spoon
3. Onion – 2 medium size
4. Cinnamon (dalchini) – 1 inch stick
5. Cloves (laung) – 5-6 pieces
6. Red chili powder -1/2 tea spoon
7. Ginger powder – 1 tea spoon
8. White oil – 5 table spoon
9. Turmeric – 1/4 tea spoon
10. Salt to taste
11. Sugar – 1/2 tea spoon
12. Water – 1 cup

Method:

1. Make a powder of cinnamon and cloves in a mixer
2. Roughly chop the onions
3. Heat the oil
4. Add onion and fry it till it turns a bit brownish
5. Add kaju paste, cinnamon & cloves powder, ginger powder, red chili powder, turmeric powder, sugar and salt
6. Fry them well till you see the oil to separate
7. Add the chicken mix it well and then cover with lid and leave in low flame for 5 minutes
8. Add water and boil the chicken under lid. Stir at regular intervals.
9. Keep cooking till the chicken is soft enough

Now its ready to serve.

Happy eating!

July 29th, 2009 | Tags: Chicken Recipe | Category: Chicken, Lunch & Dinner | Leave a comment

Cheesy Chicken Pasta is a recipe which I specially cooked for the kids. It has no sauce and contains milk and cheese which are healthy for the children. This chicken pasta is very easy to cook and yet very yummy.

– Cheesy Chicken Pasta

– Cheesy Chicken Pasta

Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

1. Boneless chicken – diced into small pieces – 1 cup
2. Macaroni – 1 cup
3. Milk – 2 cups
4. Chicken stock – 1 cup
5. Cheese cube – 2 or 3 cubes
6. Salt to taste
7. Black pepper to taste
8. Oregano to taste

Method:

1. Boil the chicken with salt
2. Take the chicken out of the water. The water in which the chicken was boiled is the ’stock’.
3. Pour the chicken stock in a cup
4. Now in a container mix the chicken stock, milk and macaroni. Boil the mixture
5. Add salt
6. Stir continuously
7. When the macaroni is half done add the chicken, cheese cube and sprinkle with black pepper
8. Stir this for a while for till the macaroni is fully done
9. Season with oregano and serve it hot

This is best served with garlic bread as a side dish.

July 27th, 2009 | Tags: Cheese, Pasta | Category: Chicken, Lunch & Dinner, Pasta, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Macaroni with butter or cheese tastes great. Today I experimented cooking butter macaroni for evening snacks. My son was crazy today to have some pasta.  I had some macaroni at home and I tried this pasta recipe. Macaroni is a machine made dry pasta which is hollow and a fun recipe  for the kids.

I thought of sharing this simple yet very tasty pasta recipe with all of you. Hope you enjoy this as well.

It hardly takes 5-10 minutes to prepare.

What you need for ingredients are:

• Macaroni – 2 &1/2 cup boiled macaroni
• Garlic – 5 cloves
• Butter – 2 tablespoon
• Onion – 1 medium size (chopped)
• Salt to taste
• Oregano – 1/2 teaspoon
• Black pepper to taste

Its very easy to prepare:

1. In a frying pan put the butter and heat
2. Add garlic and onion and fry for a minute or two
3. Add the macaroni
4. Add salt and black pepper to taste and mix well
5. Sprinkle oregano and mix lightly

Its ready to serve. Yummy! Enjoy!

June 24th, 2009 | Category: Pasta, Snacks & Starters, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

We have this ‘Hot Buttery Sweet Corn’ in so many stalls especially in the malls. It tastes great and the children are crazy about it.

I prepared this at home today evening and it tasted exactly like the ones we have in the ‘road side’ stalls.

It took me 10 minutes to completely prepare this. The quantity of 2 cups was good for three of us.

To prepare the buttery corn, you need:

- Corn 2 cups (I used frozen sweet corn)
- Butter 1 teaspoon full
- Lemon juice 2-3 teaspoon
- Salt and Black pepper 2 taste

Now, boil corn for 5 mins in high heat. Then drain the water from the corn. In a container, mix the corn, butter, black pepper, salt and lemon juice.

Thats it! Its ready to serve hot.

If you wish you may add a pint of red chilly powder. However, it may be too hot for the kids.

April 11th, 2009 | Tags: Corn | Category: Corn, Snacks & Starters, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Coleslaw sandwich is a very easy to prepare vegetable sandwich which is very healthy and tasty. Children too like it and it is often appropriate to pack it for their school tiffin as well.

Serves: 2

Time to prepare: 15 minutes

Ingredients Required:

• Bread (white or brown) – 4 slices
• Carrot – finely chopped – 2 tablespoon
• Cabbage – finely chopped – 2 tablespoon
• Onion – finely chopped – 1 tablespoon
• Mayonnaise – 2 tablespoon full
• Salt and black pepper to taste

Method:

• Mix the finely chopped carrot, cabbage, onion with the proportion of mayonnaise, salt and black pepper
• After mixing well you would observe a smooth paste that would be formed
• Refrigerate the mixed paste for about half an hour
• Cut the bread slices in triangular shape
• Spread the paste between the bread slices and serve

Coleslaw sandwich is really so easy to cook.

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: Bread, Sandwich | Category: Bachelor Cooking, Bread, Breakfast, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment

Tangra maacher jhal is a typical Bengali recipe. ‘Tangra’ is a type of fish (see photo below). Here we prepare a Tangra fish recipe with mustard. It is ideal to be served with hot rice. We may also call this fish recipe – Tangra Fish masala or Tangra fish in mustard gravy.

Tangra Maacher jhal

• Preparation time: 10 minutes
• Cooking time: 25 minutes

• Servings – 6 pieces

Ingredients

• Tangra fish – 6 pieces
• Mustard oil – 5 table spoon
• Tomato – 1 medium size finely chopped
• Salt – 2/3 tea spoon (or taste to salt)
• Turmeric powder (haldi) – 1/4 tea spoon
• Green Chili – 5 pieces
• Water – 1 cup
• Mustard seed paste – 2 table spoon full
• Panch phoron – 1/2 tea spoon

What is panch phoron?Read this Wikipedia link

How to cook Tangra Macher jhal

1. Clean the fishes well in running water and smear it with salt and turmeric powder
2. Paste the mustard seeds along with green chilies and a pinch of turmeric powder
3. Heat the oil and semi fry the fishes
4. Take the fishes out of the oil and add panch phoron, tomato, salt, green chilies and haldi and fry for 1/2 minute
5. Add fish and a cup of water and boil for 2-3 minutes
6. Add mustard seed paste and mix well

Tangra macher jhal is now ready. Garnish with green chilies and serve with hot plain rice.

November 25th, 2008 | Tags: Bengali recipe, Fish Recipe, Tangra | Category: Fish, Lunch & Dinner | Comments (2)

Cucumber sandwich is another very easy sandwich recipe which is a favourite of kids. Yesterday I shared how you can make carrot sandwich. Today I share the cucumber sandwich recipe which is prepared in a similar way though ingredients are slightly different. This is a very easy recipe and a quick recipe of vegetarian sandwich which you can pack for your kids’ tiffin or lunch box for school.

Cucumber Sandwich

• Preparation time – 10 mins
• Serves – 2

Ingredients required for cucumber sandwich

• Bread – 4 slices
• Grated cucumber – 4 table spoon full
• Tomato – 1 table spoon of finely chopped tomato
• Mayonnaise – 2 table spoon full
• A pinch of salt
• A pinch of black pepper

Method

1. Mix the grated cucumber, chopped tomato, mayonnaise, salt and black pepper in a bowl
2. Split the bread from the corners to make triangular bread slices
3. Put the mixed ingredients (from point 1) between two slices of bread
4. Your cucumber sandwich is ready to eat

This is also a healthy vegan breakfast.

November 23rd, 2008 | Tags: Bread, Sandwich, Veggie | Category: Bread, Breakfast, Cucumber, Yummy Kids | Leave a comment